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Streetfood Und Stadtkultur – Hawker in Telok Bahang/Malaysia Asiatische Studien Études Asiatiques LXVI · 2 · 2012 Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft Revue de la Société Suisse – Asie Edited by Roland Altenburger and Robert H. Gassmann Peter Lang Bern · Berlin · Bruxelles · Frankfurt am Main · New York · Oxford · Wien ISSN 0004-4717 © Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 2012 Hochfeldstrasse 32, CH-3012 Bern, Schweiz [email protected], www.peterlang.com Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Das Werk einschließlich aller seiner Teile ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Jede Verwertung außerhalb der engen Grenzen des Urheberrechtsgesetzes ist ohne Zustimmung des Verlages unzulässig und strafbar. Das gilt insbesondere für Vervielfältigungen, Übersetzungen, Mikroverfilmungen und die Einspeicherung und Verarbeitung in elektronischen Systemen. Printed in Hungary INHALTSVERZEICHNIS – TABLE DES MATIÈRES CONTENTS Aufsätze – Articles – Articles JOHANNES BRONKHORST ............................................................................................................... 227 Levels of Cognition: Did Indian philosophers know something we do not? NADIA CATTONI .................................................................................................................................. 239 Le commentaire littéraire: entre classification et interprétation. Exemples issus de la Śṛṅgāradīpikā et de la Bhāvadīpikā de Vemabhūpāla BOGDAN DIACONESCU .................................................................................................................... 261 On the New Ways of the Late Vedic Hermeneutics: Mīmāṃsā and Navya-Nyāya DANIELLE FELLER .............................................................................................................................. 307 Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Kālidāsa: References to the divinities in the Meghadūta PAUL KIPARSKY .................................................................................................................................. 327 Pāṇini, Variation, and Orthoepic Diaskeuasis ELSA LEGITTIMO ................................................................................................................................. 337 Buddhānusmṛti between Worship and Meditation: Early currents of the Chinese Ekottarika-āgama Rezensionsaufsatz – Compte rendu – Review article ALBRECHT WEZLER .......................................................................................................................... 403 ʻWiedervereinigungʼ der russischen und westlichen Indologie? Bericht – Rapport – Report JOHANNES BRONKHORST ............................................................................................................... 453 Publications received by the regional editor (from Jan 2010 to Dec 2011) AS/EA LXVI•2•2012 226 INHALTSVERZEICHNIS – TABLE DES MATIÈRES – CONTENTS Rezensionen – Comptes rendus – Reviews AKṢAPĀDA PAKṢILASVĀMIN / GAUTAMA AKṢAPĀDA ................................................... 479 L’art de conduire la pensée en Inde Ancienne. Nyāya-Sūtra de Gautama Akṣapāda et Nyāya-Bhāṣya d’Akṣapāda Pakṣilasvāmin. Édition, traduction et présentation de Michel ANGOT. (Elisa Freschi) FRIEDERIKE ASSANDRI .................................................................................................................... 488 Beyond the Daode jing: Twofold Mystery in Tang Daoism. (Dominic Steavu) CARMEN MEINERT (ED.) ................................................................................................................. 495 Traces of Humanism in China: Tradition and Modernity. (John Makeham) THOMAS JÜLCH .................................................................................................................................... 498 Der Orden des Sima Chengzhen und des Wang Ziqiao. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Shangqing-Daoismus in den Tiantai-Bergen. (Friederike Assandri) SHADI OLIAEI ........................................................................................................................................ 504 L’art du conteur dans les cafés traditionnels en Iran. (Katayun Amirpur) FABIAN SCHÄFER (HG.) ................................................................................................................... 508 Tosaka Jun – Ideologie, Medien, Alltag. Eine Auswahl ideologiekritischer, kultur- und medientheoretischer und geschichtsphilosophischer Schriften. (Elena Louisa Lange) Autoren – Auteurs – Authors ....................................................................................................... 515 AS/EA LXVI•2•2012 498 REZENSIONEN / COMPTES RENDUS / REVIEWS concludes that there has never been a fixed meaning of “humanism” in modern Chinese texts. As is typical of many edited volumes, the whole is something less than the sum of its parts. The retrospective interrogation of various periods and events in Chinese history through the interpretative lens of the elusive and opaque concept “humanism” – over which the concept’s European origins continue to cast a shadow, despite the claims made in the volume’s Foreword (and cited above) – is a curious experiment, but one that left me wondering just what value and meaning should be attached to the traces that the editor believes have been revealed in the volume. John Makeham JÜLCH, Thomas: Der Orden des Sima Chengzhen und des Wang Ziqiao. Unter- suchungen zur Geschichte des Shangqing-Daoismus in den Tiantai-Bergen. München: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2011 (Sprach und Literaturwissenschaften Band 39). 154 pp., ISBN 978-3-8316-4083-6. This book, written in German, presents annotated translations of two Chinese texts from the 8th and 9th centuries CE, which relate to the history of Daoism in the Tiantai Mountains in Zhejiang: the Shangqing shidi chen Tongbo Zhenren zhen tuzan 上清侍帝晨桐柏真人真圖讚 (Veritable Illustrations with Eulogies of the Imperial Chamberlain of Shangqing and Zhenren of [Mount] Tongbo1), DZ 621, by Sima Chengzhen 司馬承禎 (647–735) and the Tiantaishan ji 天台 山記 (Record of Mount Tiantai) by Xu Lingfu 徐靈府 (827–8762). In addition, a short chapter summarizes the most important texts contained in the Tiantai shan zhi 天台山志 (Monograph on Mount Tiantai, DZ 603), a compilation dated to 1367 (ROBSON, 2002: 25) or 1368 (ALLISTONE, 2004: 913) (not 1637 as stated on p. 89 in a rather unfortunate typing error), which also contains materials on the history of Daoism in the Tiantai Mountains. The author explains in a short preface that the two translations were origin- ally two separate essays, which were compiled together with materials on the third text in this book. In fact, rather than creating a coherent narrative, the book presents its textual sources separately. Each text is preceded by a short introduc- 1 The English translation of the title follows VERELLEN, 2004: 424. 2 Date provided by BUJARD, 2000: 145. AS/EA LXVI•2•2012, S. 479–514 REZENSIONEN / COMPTES RENDUS / REVIEWS 499 tion, where Jülch provides contextual information and presents also his analy- tical conclusions, which focus on the possible political motives and the strategies of justification of “the relocation of the center of the Shangqing school from Mount Mao to Mount Tongbo [in the Tiantai mountains]” (p.1) by Sima Chengzhen. The translation of Sima Chengzhen’s text is accompanied by 10 pages with reproductions of the illustrations of the original edition of the text in the Daoist Canon. Copies of the original Chinese texts of the Shangqing shidi chen Tongbo Zhenren zhen tuzan from the Daozang, including its illustrations, and of the Tiantai shan ji from the Tangwen shiyi 唐文拾遗 edition are ap- pended at the end of the book. The book is completed by a bibliography, but does not have an index. The introduction portrays Sima Chengzen, the Shangqing school (here we find the three highest heavens of Daoism listed in reverse order3), and Jülch’s main thesis that Sima Chengzhen constructed an ideology around Wang Ziqiao and himself to justify a “relocation” of the Shangqing school from Mount Mao to Mount Tiantai, which was requested by the imperial court. The first text translated, the Shangqing shidi chen Tongbo Zhenren zhen tuzan, is an illustrated hagiography of the ancient immortal Wang Ziqiao 王子 喬. Jülch’s introduction to the translation summarizes two main traditions of the earlier Wang Ziqiao hagiography and explains Sima Chengzhen’s contribution to the development of this hagiographical tradition. It then offers in a section entitled “Buddhist Influence” (pp. 12–14) an interesting discussion of parallels between Sima Chengzhen’s development of the vita of the Daoist immortal with the Legend of the Buddha as it was introduced in China in the Lalitavistara Sūtra (Puyao jing 普曜經, T 186). The Shangqing shidi chen Tongbo Zhenren zhen tuzan presents Wang Ziqiao’s vita in 11 illustrated sections. It combines and reconciles different traditions of the Wang Ziqiao legends, describing first Wang’s “earthly” career, as son of the emperor Ling of the ancient Zhou dynasty (r. 571–545 BCE), who studied Daoism, cultivated himself on Mount Song and eventually alighted riding on a crane to become an immortal. From there the story proceeds to pre- 3 Jülch refers here to Kohn’s entry in the Encyclopedia of Daoism on the Three Clarities (sanqing) (KOHN, 2008: 840–844), which lists yuqing, shangqing taiqing in (implicit) de- scending order. Adding the qualifiers “unterhalb” (below) and “oberhalb” (above), he rever- ses the order, naming yuqing as the lowest of the three heavens. However, during most of early medieval China, including the Tang dynasty, the yuqing heaven was
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